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KEMI Badenoch promises change after historic Tory leadership win
BBC ^ | Nov 2 | Sam Francis, Political Reporter

Posted on 11/02/2024 2:30:17 PM PDT by RandFan

Kemi Badenoch has promised to win back voters who have deserted the Conservatives after securing an historic victory in the party's leadership contest.

The 44-year-old becomes the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK.

She defeated fellow right-winger Robert Jenrick, 42, by 12,418 votes after a marathon contest to replace Rishi Sunak, who led the party to the biggest defeat in its history in July's general election.

In her victory speech, Badenoch promised to "renew" the party and told cheering supporters it was "time to get down to business".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 11/02/2024 2:30:17 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Anyone will be better than the crooked-toothed atheist pederasts that have run the Tory party for the last 150 years.


2 posted on 11/02/2024 2:34:45 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: RandFan

This gal is not going to lead the Conservatives back to power. She has advocated for even more mass immigration in the past. If anything, she will likely be even worse than Sunak. The only way forward for the poor souls in Britain is a party like Britain First. The Conservatives over there are even worse than the Republicans over here.


3 posted on 11/02/2024 2:54:43 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: SharpRightTurn

The Tories blew it when they discarded Enoch Powell.


4 posted on 11/02/2024 2:55:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

And to think the Brits used to “rule the world”. Look where they are now with liberalism, DEI, woke-ness, leftists and so forth. LOL! More popcorn!


5 posted on 11/02/2024 2:58:16 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: hal ogen

The sun still never sets on their leftist woke warmongering propaganda empire.

They want some other folks to die to save their pathetic joke of a country.


6 posted on 11/02/2024 3:07:11 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: RandFan

England is the world’s banking hub surrounded by slums patrolled by muslim enforcers.


7 posted on 11/02/2024 3:24:10 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: RandFan

Here’s hoping...


8 posted on 11/02/2024 3:26:04 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: RandFan

UK parties change leaders more than the Federation in Starship Troopers.


9 posted on 11/02/2024 3:30:36 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Turn out the lights, the election is over. Trump 47.)
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To: Fledermaus

Would you like to know more?


10 posted on 11/02/2024 3:31:25 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Turn out the lights, the election is over. Trump 47.)
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To: RandFan

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/uk-conservative-leader-kemi-badenoch-profile/2024/11/02/id/1186435/


11 posted on 11/02/2024 4:56:28 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: dfwgator

“The Tories blew it when they discarded Enoch Powell.”

Agreed.


12 posted on 11/02/2024 4:57:01 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: RandFan

“We will not talk right and govern left.”

“We will renew by starting from first principles: we can’t control immigration until we re-confirm our belief in the nation state and the sovereign duty it has, above all else, to serve its own citizens.”

https://humanevents.com/2024/07/30/kemi-badenoch-who-knows-what-a-woman-is-steps-into-uk-tory-leadership-race

I wish her and the UK well.

Unfortunately, the five years under Labour probably will be hell.


13 posted on 11/02/2024 5:01:51 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: RandFan

Citizenship is not just about having a passport.

It is a commitment to a country and the people in it.

A country belongs to its citizens. It is nothing without them.

We cannot treat their needs or concerns as secondary or inconvenient or of a lower priority than anyone else’s.

People should not be made to feel guilty for questioning levels of immigration, legal or illegal, if it is changing the place they know and love.

And government should not be shy of doing whatever it takes to change things.

If people don’t want their taxes to pay for foreign criminals to be in our jails or on our streets, those criminals should be removed.

If they want local people to have priority for housing, for benefits, for school places, we must make that happen.

Our country is not a dormitory for people just here to make money or a hotel for those passing through.

It is our home and no one else will look after it.

https://www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemi-badenochs-renewal2030-leadership-launch-speech

The foundation of our society is not the individual; it is the family.

Whether it’s the family we’re born into or the family we build.

My family is everything to me. It’s everything to most of us.

Sometimes government just doesn’t get family.

It wants to help with childcare, not because it loves children, but so their mums can get back to work quickly.

We need to celebrate families.

We need to place them at the centre of our policies and our actions.

For the good of society, not for the good of the Treasury.


14 posted on 11/02/2024 5:12:03 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: RandFan

“Badenoch promised to “renew” the party and told cheering supporters it was “time to get down to business”.”

WOW! Such inspiring words!


15 posted on 11/02/2024 6:47:53 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: RandFan

I hope she’s more of a real conservative than Establishment Tories like Sunak.


16 posted on 11/03/2024 10:45:10 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

She’s another plant that will take the Tories down. Maybe that’s a good thing. They are beyond repair, much like the Pubs and Dems.


17 posted on 11/03/2024 5:00:51 PM PST by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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